Quotes About Success

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

I never could understand why Leslie Fenton gave up a soft touch in front of the camera to move behind it.

College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

The beauty of a game like softball is you're failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you're still failing seven out of 10 times. But you're still good.

When you think about success - whether it be in softball, getting into college or becoming an 'American Idol' singer - whatever your goals and aspirations are, you're going to have to stand out at some point if you want to succeed.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.

I found a great mentor early on in my career, Dave Duffield - a legendary software innovator, great individual, and a wonderful leader and human being.

I had a great career selling software.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.

It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.

Hollywood's fickle. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it's always going to be somebody new and exciting comes along. That's just the way it works, and it will always work that way. And I think that if you give it everything to the exclusion of your own real life and family, you've sold yourself down the river.